Netflix is being called out for a snarky tweet poking fun at “the 53 people” who have binge-watched the cheesy romantic comedy “A Christmas Prince” in recent weeks.
On Sunday evening, Netflix tweeted: “To the 53 people who’ve watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?”
To the 53 people who’ve watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?
— Netflix US (@netflix) December 11, 2017
The 2017 Netflix original modern-day fairy tale, which follows a New York journalist to Eastern Europe for Christmas to report on a prince, fetched a “rotten” audience score of 56 percent on the popular review aggregation site RottenTomatoes.com.
While many users were amused by Netflix’s shade-throwing, others were faced with the stunning realization that their embarrassing binge-watching habits are being tracked.
I liked this tweet because it’s good to be reminded that huge unaccountable companies use our personal data to dunk on us both literally and figuratively. https://t.co/4IXFUuEHsT
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) December 11, 2017
1. sick burn. 2. this is creepy AF. https://t.co/xuUM8WBhjj
— tierney bricker (@tbrick2) December 11, 2017
Why are you calling people out like that Netflix
— Amanda Bell (@AmandaJuneBell) December 11, 2017
This is creepy as hell.
— 1001 Chicago Afternoons (@1001chicago) December 12, 2017
That’s pretty creepy @netflix. Is it in your Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy that you will collect and analyze viewing habits so that you can mock people via social media? Asking for a friend. #fb
— Andrew Strutt (@andrew_strutt) December 11, 2017
This is amazing. Except for the “watching us like big brother “ part ;)
— blake (@blaketopia) December 11, 2017
Even Lifetime jumped in on the action, offering to snap up any disenchanted Netflix users who want to enjoy their guilty pleasures without the judgment.
If Netflix doesn’t want you, there’s always room on our couch! And if Christmas Princes aren’t your thing, we’ve got meet cutes, serial killers, queenpins, and babysitters gone bad. We’re not here to judge! https://t.co/rYqLAYsQdn
— Lifetime (@lifetimetv) December 11, 2017
A spokesperson for Netflix told Business Insider, “The privacy of our members’ viewing is important to us. This information represents overall viewing trends, not the personal viewing information of specific, identified individuals.”
• Jessica Chasmar can be reached at jchasmar@washingtontimes.com.
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